Just touching down for a moment
Good morning. It’s just me. We’re at a late start. But, just got out of the shower. It’s about 5:55 am. Rich had wanted to shower at 6 am, so we figured we’d get ours out of the way. We did an official weigh in this morning … and we’re 270!!… Unfortunately, Rich did a weight in and he’s at 292. He hasn’t been exercising through umping because of his other business so he is blaming that … which might be partially to blame, but the point is he’s still overeating. I think though that he is conscientiously trying to slow down. He’s taking one serving instead of two – though they are still generous.
I’m afraid Rich is in a state of mind where the whole thing feels a bit daunting to him. I’m afraid the only way to lose weight is to eat less. When we went out last night Alex was saying he’s on a no carb diet. That seems to have worked in the past for both him and Maury, but I think it is rough on the system including bowel movements. Alex ate a ton of eggs though – proteins a big deal for him too. But, then Alex is doing something with his body … he does his karate, runs, swims, and lifts weights. His body seems to show it. I’m not saying that Rich has to do all that, but there has to be limits to his food intake.
Ok, now we’re just harping on it … just that we’re trying to create a plan of attack. Hmm, there … we started. He doesn’t want to talk about it now, but he promised he would talk about it. We need to talk about specific intake stoppages - or, at least curtailing. He’s going too far toward the wrong direction. He’s now 22 pounds heavier … that’s way too much … He’s making me feel terrible.
Hmm, just got some coffee … psychologically, I think I had to do something nice for me to feel better. Now if my kitty would just get a grip on it. We gave her a nice pet … she’s got no complaints … and we even FED them!
Hmm, I’m not sure if you heard, but our Internet was down most of Saturday and Sunday. That was a real hardship. We made do with some writing, but it doesn’t take the place of sitting here before the screens.
I think we were at Rich’s computer yesterday looking up DoJo information – or at least after school licensing requirements. We have to do a lot more research, because we had only a short time of it. I’m not sure too what Sensei Steve said – if Joe presented it to him. I’m not sure if the licensing that I had seen yesterday only pertained to non-profits with funding going to the needy. That’s the part we’re stuck with now.
Alex seemed to think that whatever Joe wanted to do – he could do. Steve had talked to both he and Alex about taking over full ownership. I’m not sure then if he’ll say “whatever.” Then Joe would have to get totally in back of a plan and he would need funding resources. I think I saw yesterday a place that would help them get the start-up things that he needed. Another point that I got stuck on though was the part about having weapons on site. I’m not sure if the state would fund that kind of operation. Safety is too paramount.
I think if I can get some time today that I should make a call to the services I was looking up through DHS yesterday.
Other than that … I had a really good time with the kids. I think I mentioned yesterday about the candy pancakes. Mmm … that’s gotta be healthy! Hehehe. The girls had some very good behaviors. I think Ame seems to have slowed down a bit. She approached me before leaving with a book to look at. We here reading hello kitty. She wasn’t bouncy or squirmy yesterday at all. Is that some difference in her age – or, because of her school training? She and her sister are looking so beautiful. Isa was the more talkative of the two.
She was funny at the table … Daddy of course cut up Isa’s food. Ame asked for the same, but then Alex recommended that she do it herself, and then he showed her how.
She concentrated on it the rest of the meal. I was really proud of her. Isa seemed to be at a place she really didn’t like sticky fingers. She had both her dad and us wash them several times with napkins and water from my water glass. They are so precious. I asked Alex if he and Sarah his fiancée were going to have kids. I know they have talked about it, but he’s of that stage where they think not yet … let’s appreciate each other first. One can’t go wrong with that decision. Having kids too … is not the easiest route to go. Not that that’s what Alex is looking for, but it’s a truth worth telling nonetheless.
I think after our meal they were going to meet Alex over at his place. Maury kind of pushed that they could all go swimming. He said that he needed to take the girls somewhere to allow Lauren enough time to be doing her homework. Class that she’s taking in adolescent psychology is ending today and she had both a project and a final paper to be finishing up. I thought that was nice of Maury to get the household quiet, even if it meant tying up Alex a bit. His heart is in the right place.
After we got home – we did pretty much straight to working on the DSP chrono notes that we brought home to be fixing. I didn’t realize how long that was going to take. It filled up my whole afternoon. Rosa had brought them to Sister Florine when I was in the room pointing out several errors. There were plenty enough for her to ask that the sheet be done over, though I thought Rosa was being aggressive with the sister. I took them because the corrections would have taken her an ungodly amount of time and I thought it was more my fault because I’m the one that didn’t check over her work. I know now that I have to do that. I hadn’t realized what she’d been doing – and some of it seemed to be on me in that I gave her one or two wrong codes. She took that and ran with it, but blame needs to go on me. I was overall responsible.
Ok, shhh … that’s been fixed. We listened to the Cubs win their game and then we had on some background stuff when Rich came home and sometime in there we watched a documentary on the sinking of Japan’s largest warship during WWII. That was very interesting … they were telling the story from both sides, because there were still people alive that had gone through the experience directly. After Rich got home, we shared another load of laundry and he made pork chops and potatoes for dinner.
After that we watched a movie called, “Bill.” It held my attention though I can’t say it was great. It was a B movie at best.
AHA! Then there might have been a little playing under the covers … but, I’m not going to say that happened to anyone specific. It directly played into tiredness.
Rich had allowed us to rub his back afterward and we fell asleep to that position … at which time he all but scoops me up, hands me the fudgicle and applies us directly to sleep. Good Rich!
Ahh, I just smooched Rich on the run, we took our medicine and got the bag ready.
We have about 20 minutes. AHH Bliss!
Better not forget those sheets!
It feels nice on a Monday morning now days, because even though Rich was busy over the weekend first the 50th anniversary of his friend and then he visited his mother … but, he also went grocery shopping. Because of this and washing clothes were all set! WooHOO!!!
I have to worry a bit about the staffing this morning though. Hmm, might want to go to work early? Oh man … that would seriously through me into a crimp. I’m not sure if I can avoid it though. I can get by with everything else, but I still need to do an ICAP. I wonder if I can get one out of Candice’s computer and just update it.
I’m not sure if it’s there, but maybe. That might be the first thing to check this morning. Ok, we’re not going in real early, but we better get there promptly. Ok, then only 12 minutes … shoot … Nothing I want to write about in particular, but I don’t want to leave my computer. Darn it!
Did I mention that I saw Joe on Saturday? Oh yeah, I did! This was a big weekend for seeing the boys. I need to have more birthdays.
Ok, maybe I need to move … just don’t want to … can’t I write about one more thing?
Hmm, what? Oh, I don’t know … there must be something! What about … Hmm, we haven’t mentioned yet the MarineParent site? We checked that out on Saturday before the Internet went down … we caught up there and it seemed like we’d been missed. I don’t feel so important over there anymore, but it’s nice to be noticed. That I can admit. Just we had gotten so bogged down and when your being charged to write EITHER here or there … something is always being left out. Just gotta pay a little closer attention and be doing some “in moderation,” right? I know, I know … that’s our one thing … Ok, fly like a bird … good luck getting through the day!
posted by Ann Marie @ 7/21/2008 06:44:00 AM
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